Guidance for Pursuit and Evasion

Traditional pursuit-evasion engagements are concerned with a single pursuer chasing a single target. Current and future engagements may include more than two adversaries. In my talk I will present some new guidance concepts we developed for: 1-on-1, N-on-1, 1-on-N, and N-on-M engagements. Special emphasis will be given to the underlying geometrical rules for guidance as well as to the presentation and analysis of some interesting cooperative guidance schemes.

Speaker: Prof. Tal Shima

Biography: Tal Shima received his B.Sc., MA, and Ph.D. degrees, all in Aerospace Engineering, from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He also received the MBA degree from the Tel-Aviv University. Since 2006 Dr. Shima is with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion where he currently holds the Lottie and Max Dresher Chair in Aerospace Performance and Propulsion. He recently finished his 4 years’ term as dean of the department. His current research interests are in the area of guidance of autonomous vehicles, especially aerial ones, operating individually or as a team. He is the author/co-author of more than 100 archival journal papers in these research areas.